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In its 60-year history, Flos has served as an ideas lab for some of the world’s brightest designers, both past and present: Michael Anastassiades, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Konstantin Grcic, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Philippe Starck. The Castiglioni brothers gave the brand an early hit: Arco, which, designed in 1962, is also celebrating its 60th anniversary and has been in continuous production ever since. Inspired by streetlights, they conceived the floor lamp as an overhead one that didn’t require drilling into the ceiling, its spun aluminum reflector extending almost 7 feet from a Carrara marble base, connected by a curved stainless-steel stem high enough to walk under. Their Taccia table lamp from the same year is similarly enduring. The only change to both is the addition of an LED option.











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